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  • Saffron in the air

    It’s almost starting to feel like a regular Christmas, all but mask mandates & the strict hygiene rules. In our house today it smells of Saffron & mulled wine. We’re celebrating Saint Lucia a day early. A few weeks ago we were hoping to have actual people over but that changed last week.

    When the government rolled out new mandates for us this Christmas. Yesterday when we decorated the tree it almost felt like a “normal” Christmas. But now it doesn’t with the limiting of personal contacts et cetera.

    The husband is back on home office & we’re wondering what next year will bring?? For now though we’re going enjoy the moment & figure out what this year’s Christmas will be like. Oh & all the snow rained away so, so much for a white Christmas.

  • Partial lockdown

    Soo much for a “normal” Christmas this year, as the government announced new national rules starting tomorrow at midnight. The meter/ 3 feet rule is back as are home office. It just stinks–& the fact that many businesses may not survive till next year.

    Makes me sad oh & that you also need to limit how many people you’re in contact with. Exactly 73 days after we “reopened” society again. The siliest rule of all is that you can have is 20 people over for Christmas or New Year’s but you have to be a meter apart.

    That makes for some really awkward conversations. Oh & they also said that we should have the party outside. In 40 degrees & rain I really see that happening. Not. I just gotten into to going to Quiz night again & now this. I am dreading going into town tomorrow as people will undoubtedly freak out tonight.

    Such fun. Causing panic seems to be how the government works these days. Something I am getting Really tired of since the shut down of March 2020. It means I will have to be in town Early tomorrow. Grateful I ran errands the other day. But this doesn’t feel much like Christmas anymore.

    Stay safe & bundle up out there.

  • Christmas movie season

    If we all could live in a world with perfect lighting & where everything is sealed with a kiss. That would be a Christmas movie season, although some are better than others. It depends on who’s making it & what kind of budget they have.

    Love Actually is my standard for me so the made for TV movies are cliché & lighting is always too perfect. It’s always some couple that lost touch or had something in the past. Or the super high strung woman that leaves for the small town she grew up in & rediscovers Love & Christmas all in the 90 minutes you watch.

    They recently shot a movie in my parents town & changed the names of the local businesses while they shot there. Made fake snow that they decorated the town with. The town’s main butcher shop was paid money to change name & decorate with tacky signs.

    All for a Perfect lighting & a cliché relationship that never has arguments or discord. Even though Christmas is one of the most stressful times of the year. With the rise of domestic violence & drunk & lewd conduct. I guess hiding oneself in a cliché for 90 minutes isn’t soo bad. Even if it’s Always soo Perfect & there is no bad lighting only bad lines.